Farm house in Primestown

Detached three- or four-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1911. Reroofed, 1960. Now disused. Replacement pitched corrugated-iron roof on collared timber construction with pressed iron ridge, rendered off-central dwarf chimney stack, and no rainwater goods visible on creeper- or ivy-covered eaves. Creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed lime rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening with fittings not visible. Square-headed window openings with concealed dressings including timber lintels framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds with monolithic piers to perimeter supporting timber gates.

A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of south County Wexford by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette with a disintegrating surface finish revealing sections of "daub" or mud; and the high pitched roof originally showing a thatch finish according to the "House and Building Return" Form of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911). A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent "tin roofed" outbuildings (extant 1903) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing, if increasingly obscure visual statement in a rural street scene.